Iran building a new nuclear reactor in Isfahan

The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) said the country is ready to start construction of a new nuclear research reactor at the Isfahan nuclear facility. By "research" they mean "military weapons research," they just left that part off for brevity sake.

Iran’s state-run media outlet Fars news agency quoted the IAEO official asserting that “Iran has a new plan to produce 10,000 megawatts of nuclear electricity and work is underway to choose suitable places to build nuclear facilities in the country, especially in the south.” 

But is the Islamic Republic of Iran telling the truth? We really don't know and neither does the Biden administration. The remarks come amidst the stalled U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations in Vienna, but it may be a smokescreen and a veiled threat to the U.S. and other less bellicose nations to grant these terrorists concessions it asked for in the negotiations.

IAEO [dick] head Mohammad Eslami emphasized Iran’s ambition to develop the new nuclear research reactor “completely indigenously.” 

Eslami also inferred that one of the primary roadblocks preventing Iran’s nuclear growth is the smaller capacity of the country’s domestic power plants. “In this direction, we will use international partnerships and we will not wait for anyone, because Iran has sufficient scientific, industrial and technological capacities,” he said, according to The Jerusalem Post.

 “Fortunately, there are large companies in the country that can support the 10,000-megawatt nuclear power production program, and we also support any company and institution that participates in the program of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.”

Iran’s Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center (INTC) is the country’s largest and most sophisticated nuclear research complex. Built in the mid-1980s with assistance from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the INTC is largely suspected of being the epicenter of Tehran’s underground and secret nuclear weapons program. 

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Iran’s self-reported plan to construct a new nuclear research facility is the country’s latest escalation in its nuclear ambitions. With a rapidly approaching nuclear breakout time, the regime’s intentions appear more malign than ever, and we have to give credit where it's due: thank you Joe Biden and whoever is behind the curtain pulling his strings.

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